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Historic landfill sites in Newquay, Cornwall

The Environment Agency records 37 historic landfill sites in and around Newquay, Cornwall. covering roughly 60 hectares in total. The largest is East Wheal Rose at 14.79 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Newquay (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
East Wheal Rose14.79 ha1989Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Priory Road6.4 ha1993Waste types not recorded
Trevemper Bridge5.23 ha1960IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Land to the north of Chy an Gover4.67 ha1952SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Station Road Playing Fields3.96 ha1960HouseholdCommercialInert
Trenhaile3.49 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Trevemper, Newquay2.57 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Land At Newlyn Downs2.02 ha—Waste types not recorded
Trenhaile, Newlyn East1.65 ha—Waste types not recorded
Green Garth1.51 ha1992Inert
Station Road Car Park1.36 ha—HouseholdCommercial
Perran Sands1.1 ha—Household
Trevemper Mill1.04 ha—Waste types not recorded
Trevemper Road1.02 ha—HouseholdCommercialInert
Old Stores, Goonhavern0.87 ha1979IndustrialInert
Budnick Tin Mine0.85 ha1970Inert
Reen Manor Farm0.84 ha—Inert
Manuels0.76 ha1962Inert
Bolenna Playing Field0.69 ha1999Waste types not recorded
Trevemper Bridge0.62 ha—Inert
Trevithick Farm0.56 ha1991IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Reen Road, Goonhavern0.47 ha1991SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
Leader Road0.46 ha1969IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Trewollack0.45 ha1959IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Meadow Vean0.44 ha1968Inert
Gear Sands0.37 ha1991IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Wheal Vlow0.34 ha—Household
Railway Cutting, Goonhav0.26 ha1991Waste types not recorded
Perran Sands0.24 ha1980Inert
Old Quarries0.24 ha1966IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Degembris Minor0.21 ha—Waste types not recorded
St Francis Pet Cemetery0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Disused Quarry Trerice 30.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Henwoods Quarry0.13 ha—Household
Gusti Veor0.12 ha—Waste types not recorded
Disused Quarry0.09 ha—Household
Duchy Quarry0.06 ha1959Inert

What this data does — and doesn't — cover

  • Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
  • Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
  • Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
  • Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.

EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Newquay?
37 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Newquay town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Newquay?
Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

Nearby areas

Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.